For the past five months our task was to interpret a script in own way and create a 3 minute animation displaying this interpretation. I choose the original Matrix Dojo scene with my own beginning and ending. The storyline based in Arcade game centre where the Neo and Morpheus are just computer geeks. They are fighting for a leadership in a virtual reality computer game called “Matrix”. At the end of the fight Neo will be amazed by the special effects and quality of the game.

The mine idea was to create the difference in a real time life of the heroes between the virtual game, so I created 4 characters (two for each scene) and tried to make them look similar to their opposite sides by adding small things from their clothes or parts from their faces. In addition I tried to use different textures & lightning for the environments to make the contrast between the game and the real world even stronger.

Through the project I gained a lot for useful knowledge through solving issues such as character rigging, skin modifier, character cloning, rendering scenes with more than 12 different camera shots, post production etc. But my biggest issue/mistake was time management. Despite the fact that I was working on this project since the very beginning and I was putting most of my time in it, I was still sitting till the last hours finish the final work. So now I know that I need to reconsider the priorities for the bigger projects such as this one.

To sum up, I am quite happy with the outcome but I know that I could do better in aspects as animation, cameras and environment modeling,  if only I had manage the time properly.  Keeping in mind that I’m a student who is just learning, it is common that I am making mistakes during the learning process. But still this is not an excuse to always making the work not in the full strength.

In addition, after this project I have made quite long list of what to do/learn during the summer, so hopefully I will try to learn all of it on my work placement or just in my spare time.

I wanted to make him really simple, so the fighting animation wasn’t very complicated and  so there were no need to change the skin modifier for 100 times during the scenes.

Due to the 300mb limit on flickr.com I wasn’t been able to upload all the textures (objects, architecture and lightning samples) that I collected. I will upload them when my limit will be restored.

In the future I will add all my other projects that I have done in the past to my portfolio and I will try to find the time to code it into the WordPress. But for now I am very happy with the result and hoping to get more clients with the online portfolio.

I didn’t create the showreel due to the lack of 3D animation projects in my portfolio. I thought that adding a web layouts to the showeel will be quite ugly and without any point.

Oh, and I thought through all necessary aspects of the design and concept of the web site.

Here is my sketch for the future portfolio:

Maybe in the future I will even have an opportunity to get my web site at the No1 position in search engines.

Client required a new identity with the web site where they will be able to put all updates about their breakdance competition and where bboys will be able to register for participation. In addition I needed to connect a web site social network (users, groups and forums) with my previous projects that I have done for that client (Breakdance web site and ‘Extreme’ dance school). I was working closely with the client and visiting the competition. I created an urban style logo with the city view and a fully functional web site based on a wordpress platform with the complex registration system.